trifocals

Eventually, we begin supplementing physical deficits with stronger trifocals, hearing aids, canes, walkers, pacemakers and other assorted devices.

Yet seeing crickets as salvation requires a distinctly 20th-century set of trifocals: nutritional reductionism, consumer activism, and Western culinary exceptionalism.

Given current critiques about the way that programmers’ biases and ethics get baked into AI systems, it is easy to imagine a Talos hampered by the same 20th-century trifocals, imposing one region’s prejudices and predilections on others.

Does Medicare-for-all mean young people have to wear trifocals and Depends and trade their bicycles for walkers?

He raked a comb through his silver hair, donned trifocals and a calculator watch and drove to the office.